PyData Boston '25 Recap

It’s that time again - Conference recap time! And this time a very special one; the first EVER PyData Boston Conference!

In Conference recap, Jan 06, 2026

Ben Needs a Friend Version 2!

The last few months have been very busy! I’ll be slow-releasing some of the materials I’ve been working on.

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PyData Boston '25 Recap

It’s that time again - Conference recap time! And this time a very special one; the first EVER PyData Boston Conference!

In Conference recap, Jan 06, 2026

ODSC '25 Recap

Conference recap time! I always love putting these together, I feel like it helps me solidify my understanding of the material and gives me something to refer back to when I think of ...

In Conference recap, May 22, 2025

Ben Needs a Friend Version 2!

The last few months have been very busy! I’ll be slow-releasing some of the materials I’ve been working on.

In LLM, tutorials, May 13, 2025

Discussing AI tech with the PyData community

Wowee! Just wrapped up an excellent session with PyData Boston, a local meetup group that I, incidentally, co-lead. It’s always an inspiration to get together with the local tech comm...

In articles, Feb 03, 2025

Some thoughts on job searches

I recently had a very successful end to a particularly stressful job search and I thought it might be useful to share some of my experiences.

In updates, articles, Jun 10, 2024

Ben Needs a Friend tutorial release

It’s ready! In this repository you will find all the materials for my ODSC tutorial “Ben Needs a Friend”.

In LLM, tutorials, May 09, 2024

ODSC East 2024 Recap

It’s a wrap! ODSC East 2024 has come to and end and what a ride it was. I’ll have another post next week on the materials from my LLM application workshop, but for now I wanted to ge...

In Conference recap, Apr 26, 2024

Building a Command ARR+ agent

This month superstar LLM startup Cohere released their Command-R+ model. I experimented with this model to create a functional (and free!) agent workflow to look up local events.

In tutorial, LLM, Apr 11, 2024